From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-09-30T14:22:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Where Is Method Call Precedence?

Hello Gavin,

Saturday, September 28, 2002, 5:45:05 PM, you wrote:

>> Tuples are very powerful datastructures in OCaml. They are not lists and
>> they are not arrays. They do, for example, make it much easier to handle
>> values in parser reductions. In Ruby you would use arrays or hashes, but
>> they have a much higher overhead. It would be nice with tuples in Ruby.

GS> Since Ruby is close to Python is *some* ways, and Python has tuples, I cast the
GS> question: "What are tuples used for in Python?".  If someone answers that, then
GS> I would get an idea of why I might like them in Ruby.

tuple is an array with fixed size. when you have very large number of
small arrays, you will save many memory bytes

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 Bulat                            mailto:bulatz@integ.ru